Biggest ever Leeds beer festival announced

On the hop: Brewer Steve Crump and Tony Jenkins at WharfeBank Brewery, near Otley, are brewing a celebratory Crusader ale for Leeds CAMRAs beer festival +pic: James Hardisty

06:30Tuesday 28 January 201417:55Monday 27 January 2014

One of the biggest beer festivals in Yorkshire is set to toast real ale enthusiasts a hoppy anniversary.

Leeds Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), which was founded in The Central pub, in Wellington Street, back in 1974, will mark 40 years with a special ruby-coloured brew at its annual festival.

Wharfebank Brewery, founded in Pool-in-Wharfedale in 2010, is brewing a hoppy, special ale called ‘Crusader’ that will mark the milestone year at the event at Pudsey Civic Hall from March 13 to 15.

The celebration of all things ale and cider will see over 200 varieties on offer in two-third of a pint glasses, of which many will be film-themed due to another Leeds stalwart’s centenary.

John Rowe, chair of Leeds CAMRA and member of 23 years, said: “It’s a big landmark and we shall be celebrating back at The Central where it started 40 years ago.

“This year is also the 100-year anniversary of a Leeds institution – the Hyde Park Picture House.

“We do try to remain pretty close to our roots. Yorkshire ales are the standard by which all other ales are judged in the country – there are not many Leeds breweries that have not received national recognition.”

All Leeds breweries have been invited to showcase their produce along with dozens of national and international firms at the Leeds CAMRA Beer Festival, which has been held at Pudsey Civic Hall for more than 20 years.

This year’s cider and perry bar will host over 20 choices, while the global bar will sell several bottled beers.

Tony Jenkins, business support worker at the brewery, said: “We were the product of a growing interest in real ale three years ago. With Tetley going there has been a big interest in these parts and at other local breweries – people in Yorkshire want to drink beer from Yorkshire.”

Festival sessions will run on the Thursday and Friday from 11am to 3pm and then 5pm to 11pm and on the Saturday from 11am to 11pm. Entry costs up to £5 depending on the session.

For further information visit www.leeds-camra.com.

PICTURE PERFECT

Leeds Campaign for Real Ale’s 2014 festival will also celebrate 100 years since Hyde Park Picture House opened as a cinema.

The Grade II-listed site, in Brudenell Road, opened on November 7 1914, initially providing Leeds residents with news bulletins and war footage as well as films.

In 1989 Leeds City Council stepped in to save it from closure after the surge in popularity of video and multiplex cinemas.

It is now owned by the council as part of Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House Ltd. Visit www.hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk for information.

This website and its associated newspaper adheres to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Editors' Code of Practice.
If you have a complaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then contact the
Editor by clicking here.

If you remain dissatisfied with the response provided then you can contact the IPSO by
clicking here.

Yorkshire Evening Post provides news, events and sport features from the Leeds area. For the best up to date information relating to Leeds and the surrounding areas visit us at Yorkshire Evening Post regularly or bookmark this page.

For you to enjoy all the features of this website Yorkshire Evening Post requires permission to use cookies.

Find Out More ▼

What is a Cookie?

What is a Flash Cookie?

Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?

About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.

This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.

Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.

The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:

Revenue Science ►

A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.

Google Ads ►

Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.

Digital Analytics ►

This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.

Dart for Publishers ►

This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.

ComScore ►

ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.

Local Targeting ►

Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.

Grapeshot ►

We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.

Subscriptions Online ►

Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.

Add This ►

Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.